Cloud Defence Orchestration

Cloud computing is gaining traction during this last decade through its offering of almost unlimited computer resources accessible from anywhere with minimal management efforts. However, one of its less favorable aspects is security. Currently, the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud are not adequately used to put in place a more efficient defense. This project targets to mitigate a critical security threat to the availability of the cloud, namely distributed denial of service. Therefore, we propose an innovative automated framework that provides an efficient, elastic, and cost-effective defense against such attacks. Ericsson, a world’s leading provider of technology and services, is actively working on pioneering research on cloud computing. One of the most relevant products is the Ericsson Cloud Manager (ECM) for end-to-end cloud orchestration for Ericsson Cloud System. The results of this research can be directly applied and used inside ECM to develop novel mechanisms of defending the cloud.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mourad Debbabi

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Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC);Ericsson Canada Inc (Quebec)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

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